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New paper about unusual encounters in Icelandic waters…

In June 2022 and 2023, neonate pilot whales were observed swimming alone among groups of killer whales off south Iceland - with no other pilot whales in sight.
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Interactions Between Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) and Neonate Long‐Finned Pilot Whales (Globicephala melas) off South Iceland
This study documents two encounters off south Iceland where neonate pilot whales were observed in the company of killer whale groups, with no other pilot whales in the vicinity. The interactions invo...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🧬 New Paper 🧬
Together with Eve Jourdain, @andrewfoote.bsky.social, @fipsamarra.bsky.social et al. we investigated how ecological & spatio-temporal factors shape gene flow in killer whales from Greenland to Norway. 🧶⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Kinship clustering within an ecologically diverse killer whale metapopulation - Heredity
Heredity - Kinship clustering within an ecologically diverse killer whale metapopulation
www.nature.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM